Oprah to feature Osteens on her show

By Diane Cowen |
January 5, 2012
| Updated: January 6, 2012 10:38am

Victoria and Joel Osteen will appear on Oprah Winfrey's Next Chapter series Sunday on OWN. (Photo courtesy of Harpo Studios)

Photo By Lakewood Church

Oprah sat in the front row at Lakewood when she visited in November to interview Osteen.

Joel Osteen preached about staying passionate in life on the day that perhaps the world's best-known businesswoman - Oprah Winfrey - was in the audience.

Winfrey was in Houston in early November to attend services at Lakewood Church and then went to Osteen's home for a 90-minute interview with the megachurch preacher and his wife, Victoria. That interview will air at 8 p.m. Sunday as the second installment of her Oprah's Next Chapter series on the Oprah Winfrey Network. (The first interview, which aired Jan. 1, was with Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler.)

"I had never met her before, so I was excited to meet her," said Joel Osteen. "It didn't even feel like an interview, it felt more like a conversation. She has a way of making you feel like you've known her 20 years."

On her long-running daytime talk show, Winfrey talked frequently about her own faith and spirituality. Her conversation with the Osteens touched on many topics, including, of course, faith and church.

"She talked about how much she enjoyed the services, and how she grew up in church," Osteen said of their conversation that day. "She has a strong faith and a belief in God. She kidded me that she cried part of the way through (the service) because she felt the spirit."